Fourth quarter of 2022 worst for CPUs in 30 years
Published in News


Thus spake the great god Mercury 

Beancounters sitting at the crossroads have declared that the fourth quarter of 2022 saw the biggest fall in PC processor shipments in three decades.

ARM based PC use on the rise
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 10 February 2023 11:59

ARM based PC use on the rise


Ignoring the general downturn 

Beancounters at Counterpoint Research have noticed that while PC sales are dropping, those with ARM based chips appeared to be bucking the trend. 

MediaTek has Windows on ARM PC aspirations
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:23

MediaTek has Windows on ARM PC aspirations

Future opportunity

MediaTek has been explaining how it plans to address Qualcomm's Arm-based Windows PC market using a variant of its Kompanio mobile processor.

French Arm chipmaker teams up with AMD
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:06

French Arm chipmaker teams up with AMD


Joint project for exascale supercomputers

French ARM company that designs Arm-based processors for supercomputers has teamed up with AMD to build exascale supercomputers.

MediaTek officially unveils the 4nm Dimensity 9200 SoC
Published in Mobiles


ARM Cortex-X3 prime core and Immortalis G715 GPU with hardware ray tracing

MediaTek has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone SoC, the Dimensity 9200. Built on TSMC 4nm (N4P) manufacturing process, this is also the first SoC to feature the ARM Cortex-X3 core based on ARMv9 architecture, as well as the new Immortalis-G715 GPU with hardware-based ray tracing.

ARM and Qualcomm dispute breaks out
Published in News
Monday, 31 October 2022 12:03

ARM and Qualcomm dispute breaks out


Keeping the lawyers busy

Qualcomm and Arm are locked in a court battle over licensing of intellectual property which could make a real mess of the chip industry.

Russia was on the way to having some pretty good Arm SoC
Published in News


And then Tsar Putin invaded Ukraine

Russian chip maker Baikal Electronics was halfway to having an SoC series from eight cores to 48 before Tsar Putin invaded Ukraine and crippled the entire industry.

Microsoft releases virtual machines on Azure
Published in Cloud


Uses its Arm-based Ampere Altra

Microsoft announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. 

Windows on Arm is a bit of a downer
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 04 July 2022 12:14

Windows on Arm is a bit of a downer


And pricey

Windows on Arm laptops are starting to wake up the market, but the price and technology limitations are keeping everything in the status quo for now.

ARM announces Immortalis GPU today
Published in News
Wednesday, 29 June 2022 11:47

ARM announces Immortalis GPU today


Includes ray tracing on mobile

ARM is announcing its new flagship Immortalis GPU today, its first to include hardware-based ray tracing on mobile.